Determination of the extent of oxidation in batches of metal nanoparticle is essential to predict the behaviour of the material. Using aberration corrected transmission electron microscopy (TEM) it was possible to detect the formation of an oxide shell, of thickness 3nm, on the surface of copper nanoparticles. Further analysis shows that this shell actually consists of two layers, both of which...

We studied the effect of different concentrations of alpha-tocopherol on in vitro cupric ions induced oxidation of low density lipoproteins (LDL). Human native LDL (50 µg protein/ml) oxidation was induced by 10 µmol/L of CuSO4. Conjugated dienes were measured spectrophotometrically for up to 440 minutes. The length of the lag phase (Tlag), maximum velocity of the reaction (Vmax) and the maximum...

A new class of hydrophobic CuO nanosheets is introduced by functionalization of the cupric oxide surface with p-xylene, toluene, hexane, methylcyclohexane, and chlorobenzene. The resulting nanosheets exhibit a wide range of contact angles from 146° (p-xylene) to 27° (chlorobenzene) due to significant changes in surface composition induced by functionalization, as revealed by XPS and ATR-FTIR sp...

Nature of a large number of pyridine N-oxide-metal complexes 1) has been investigated in detailes, and pyridazine and its derivatives are also known to afford complexes with a variety of metal ions. ‘I However, no attention has been given to complex formation between pyridazine N-oxides(I) and metal ions. 3) It is interesting to examine the structures and properties of the complexes of I becaus...

Study of nanofluids is important for different types of heat transfer management systems. Cupric oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) were prepared by the chemical route and different nanofluid samples of CuO NPs dispersed in PVA in different concentrations were prepared using ultrasonication. The apparatus acoustic particle sizer (APS-100) was used to make high precision measurements of the ultrasoni...

The presence of cupric ions or ferric ions was found to enhance the development of color in the indole reaction for the calorimetric determination of deoxyribonucleic acid. The addition of calcium, cobaltous, magnesium, manganous, nickel, or zinc ions did not produce this effect. In the absence of added cupric ions, the indole reaction gave variable results, and the color developed to less than...

The tumor-inhibitory jxitency of combinations of the cupric chelate of kethoxal bis(thiosemicarbazone) [Cu(II)KTS] with several compounds that cause inhibition of the synthesis of DNA by different biochemical mechanisms was assessed in Sarcoma 180 ascites cells. Cu(II)KTS prolonged the survival time of tumor-bearing mice, whereas neither cupric chloride, copper stéarate,nor kethoxal bis(thiose...

In a study of the mechanism of activation of the copper enzyme, ascorbic acid oxidase, it was observed that most compounds which activate this enzyme have the common property of forming complex compounds with cupric ion (l-3). Among these activating substances were ribonucleic acid,’ deoxyribonucleic acid, and certain of their constituents. These substances showed a surprisingly strong affinity...

Cupric phenanthroline was used to catalyze the formation of disulfide bonds in cAMP-dependent protein kinase II. Incubation of holoenzyme alone with cupric phenanthroline resulted in no disulfide bond formation. In contrast, when holoenzyme was preincubated with cAMP prior to treatment with cupric phenanthroline, specific interchain disulfide bonding was found between the regulatory (R) and cat...

in equilibrium with metallothionein at pH 7.4 after 48 hours. We are currently reexamining copper binding to normal metallothionein and metallothionein from subjects with hepatolenticular degeneration under different experimental conditions. If, as Scheinberg suggests, copper is bound to metallothionein in the cuprous form, our interpretation of the data is indeed incorrect, and I will take ful...